Perhaps the most important is that the absolute risk of breast cancer in women with just one affected relative is relatively modest, even when the relative is diagnosed at a young age (the authors estimate a cumulative risk of 16% by age 80 years for women with a relative diagnosed younger than age 40 years).
A modest improvement was observed when the number of used genes was relative small (200 - 300).
Furthermore, in the Women's Health Cohort Study [ 7], the effect size of smoking was relatively modest (relative risk 1.39 and 1.49 for all RA and RF-positive RA, respectively) as compared with that in the Iowa study.
"They are relatively modest savings relative to the budget of the ABC and SBS," said Mr Turnbull.
But it's relative; they're modest by most standards these days.
Given that most treatment effects are relatively small or modest, 13 relative changes of 1.10-fold can be considered large and of 1.20-fold can be considered substantial.
This can be explained by the fact that many of the previous reported loci were studied in relative modest sample sizes and in a large variety of pain phenotypes.
Though the overall level is modest relative to that in the debt-addled economies of the rich world, the pace of increase is worrying.
His own collection includes an extraordinary trove of Joseph Cornells, but it is modest relative to those of the omnivorous acquirers who plan for private museums, like Bernard Arnault, in France, and Eli Broad, in Los Angeles.
This year's festival, hosted by the Issue Project Room in downtown Brooklyn, opened on Friday evening with a tribute to Pauline Oliveros, a composer whose exposure is modest relative to the breadth of her influence.
